Ben Jacobson
Ben Jacobson
Ben Scott Jacobsonis the head men's basketball coach at the University of Northern Iowa since 2006. He served as an assistant at North Dakota, North Dakota State, and Northern Iowa before taking over as head coach at Northern Iowa in 2006...
carried defense great offense position reason teams
Great teams can play defense. If our offense had been better in those two losses, we could be 12-0. Our defense has carried us, and that's the reason we're in the position we're in right now.
home shoot
He's got his ball. He'll want to go home and shoot hoops. Things are the same as they were yesterday.
athletic guard shoots three
He's big enough to play the three (small forward), but he shoots it well enough and he's athletic enough to play the two guard for us.
business coached division goes level played top treats
He has coached at the top level of Division II. More important, having played for him and coached with him, I know how he goes about his business and how he treats his players.
basketball regardless
We're going to play in the postseason regardless of what we do. We think we've already done enough. We feel like we've got a lot of basketball to play.
plans
We had a long talk, and I just told him the plans we had for him and our program.
definitely main mean
We definitely want to advance. We feel that this is our main goal, and that it is very achievable. So we're here and we mean business.
coach couple helping worked
I've really worked on my defense. I think Coach would tell you that a couple of years ago, I wouldn't even have been on Ahearn. I probably would have been helping in the lane.
redemption
It was a little redemption after the Creighton game.
ball coach half hands hit plays ran second
In the second half I kind of got it going a little bit. Coach put the ball in my hands and ran some plays for me, and I was able to hit some shots.
alone boost guys high huge iowa school tremendous
Iowa guys have done tremendous things in our program. To be able to get another Iowa high school player, let alone one from our backyard, is a huge boost for our program.
chance country deserved game teams time
Any time you get a loss, it's a wakeup call. This is a game we really wanted to get. We got what we deserved with the ranking. We had a chance to be one of the first teams in the country to get to 20 wins.
against came compete opportunity players prove top
I'm going to feel like I have something to prove when I get there, much like when I came to UNI. It's going to be the top 64 players in the country, and I have an opportunity to compete against the best.
change
I not going to change things just to change them, because I need to get away from Mac's shadow. I won't do that.